The Department has inaugurated Research Programmes and Projects in which postgraduate research assistants and postgraduate students are participating. Their aim is original research, with an emphasis on Cyprus in relation to the rest of the Greek world and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Apart from the archaeological Research Programmes and Projects that are being carried out through the Archaeological Research Unit (see below), there are also the following:

1. Grecia-Venezia Tristate (Greece-Italy-Cyprus) programme of the European Union for the protection, conservation and display of monuments dating to the Baroque period. (D. Triantaphyllopoulos)

2. Excavation of Lechaion near Corinth. Publication programme of the excavation of the Early Christian basilica.  (D. Triantaphyllopoulos - Archaeological Society in Athens)

3. Documents of the Latin Church of Cyprus 1195-1378, with funding from the Cyprus Research Centre. (Chr. Schabel)

4. The Opera Omnia of Peter Auriol, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen. (Chr. Schabel)

5. Sidi Khrebish. Publication programme of the Roman wall paintings of Berenice (Benghazi), Libya. (D. Michaelides - Society for Libyan Studies, London) 

6. COOP 2002. A research programme for the history of cooperative movement in Cyprus, financed by the Pancyprian Cooperative Federation and the Cooperative Organizations. (G. Georghis)

7. “Neocles Kyriazis” Programme. A bibliography programme to research and record the Greek publications 1878-2000 which refer to the Cyprus issue and the contemporary history of Cyprus. This programme functions in the context of the context of the Cyprus Foundation for the Promotion of Research. (G. Georgis-A. Hamatsou) 

8. The Dormant Memory. A research tutorial programme about the political, social and economic situation in Cyprus during the last years of Ottoman rule and the first period of British occupation. At the centre of the research is the old cemetery of Nicosia (Saint Spyridon) where the tombs of known personalities of the period are situated.  (G. Georgis – undergraduate and postgraduate students)

9. The Turkish invasion of 1974 and the uprooting of the Greeks of Kyrenia through the Oral Tradition Archive of the Cyprus Research Centre with funding from the Cyprus Research Centre (G. Kazamias).

10. Programme for the Creation of a Digital Library for the Oral History Archives of the Cyprus Research Centre with funding from the Cyprus Research Centre (G. Kazamias in collaboration with the Library of the University of Cyprus).